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Judges 3:2

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might know: Genesis 2:17, Genesis 3:5, Genesis 3:7; 2 Chronicles 12:8; Matthew 10:34-39; John 16:33; 1 Corinthians 9:26-27; Ephesians 6:11-18; 1 Timothy 6:12; 2 Timothy 2:3, 2 Timothy 4:7

to teach: Their fathers fought by a divine power. God taught their hands to war and their fingers to fight, that they might be the instruments of destruction to the wicked nations on whom the curse rested; but now that they had forfeited His favour, they must learn what it is to fight like other men.

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